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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Moodle is a very popular e-learning tool in universities and high schools. But what does it have to offer younger students who want a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle empowers teachers to achieve all this and more and this book will show you how! This book will show complete beginners in Moodle with no technical background how to make the most of its features to enhance the learning and teaching of children aged around 7-14. This is a practical book for teachers, written by a teacher with two decades of practical experience, latterly in using Moodle to motivate younger students. Its aim is to give you some hints and advice on how to get your Moodle courses up and running with useful content that your students will actually want to go and learn from on a regular basis. We will assume that you have an installation of Moodle managed by somebody else, so you are responsible only for creating and delivering course content. Throughout the book we will be building a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14 on Rivers and Flooding It could be any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface

Time for action-getting rid of the coughs and giggles


Let's just look at a few ways to enhance our effort, and then we'll put the audio recording into Moodle.

  1. 1. Play the audio, which you have recorded, by clicking on the green Play button.

  2. 2. Find the part of the recording with the cough, giggle, or any other error that you want to cut out from the recording.

  3. 3. Use your mouse to select that bit of the file, just as you would highlight a word when typing. In the following screenshot, you'll find that the chosen section is darker:

  4. 4. Press the Delete button on your keyboard, or click on the scissor icon on the Audacity toolbar. Done!